Indoor career Foster is the second most prolific winner of the
World Indoor Championship singles title, behind six-times winner, pairs partner and close friend
Alex Marshall. He has five wins from seven final appearances (in
1998,
2001,
2005,
2011 and
2017), with his two defeats coming in the
2013 final to
Stewart Anderson and in the
2022 final to
Les Gillett. In addition, Foster has won another nine world indoor titles, bringing his career record to 14. He has won the pairs six times, once with
Hugh Duff in
2002 and five times with Alex Marshall (
2011,
2012,
2013,
2019 and
2026). He has won the Mixed Pairs title with
Laura Thomas in
2013 and
2014 and with
Alison Merrien in 2022. He was the first bowler to win back-to-back major
WBT titles and a record firth major WBT title in 2007, and in 2009, he added a record sixth, which made him the WBT world number one for the first time. He won a pairs silver as part of the
Scottish team for the
2018 Commonwealth Games with Alex Marshall. He then won a fourth career Commonwealth Games gold in the
Fours with Marshall,
Ronnie Duncan and
Derek Oliver. In 2022, he competed in the
men's pairs and the
men's fours at the
2022 Commonwealth Games. Partnering Marshall, they won the pairs bronze medal.
World Championships During the
2012 World Outdoor Bowls Championship Foster and Marshall added the
World Outdoor Pairs title, becoming the first players to win the indoor and outdoor pairs titles in the same year. In 2016, two more bronze medals were added, when he competed in the
2016 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in
Christchurch. In 2020, he was selected for the
2020 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Australia but the event was cancelled due to the
COVID-19 pandemic. In 2023, he was selected as part of the team to represent Scotland at the
2023 World Outdoor Bowls Championship. He participated in the
men's triples and the
men's fours events. In the triples, with Alex Marshall and Derek Oliver, he won the silver medal. One week later in the fours partnering Marshall, Oliver and
Jason Banks, the team won their group before reaching the final against Australia, where he won a second silver medal after losing 12–10.
Other In 2025, Foster won his third
Scottish National Bowls Championships, after winning the pairs with Colin Howie. In November 2025, he won the silver medal after reaching the final of the
2025 Bowls World Cup, where he partnered Jason Banks in the pairs event.
Awards He was inducted into the World Bowls Tour (WBT) Hall of Fame in 2008, as well as winning Players' Player of the Year and Performance of the Year at the inaugural
World Bowls Tour Awards in 2008. In 2010, Foster won WBT Player of the Year and Players' Player of the Year. In 2012, he was again voted WBT Player of the Year and Players' Player of the Year, also winning Shot of the Year He won another three awards in 2013, which were for Fans' Player of the Year, Performance of the Year, and Shot of the Year. Foster was selected as SIBA Men's Indoor Player of the Year in 2017 and 2018. He was also inducted in to SIBA Hall of Fame in 2018. At the Team Scotland Sports Awards, Foster and
Marshall were voted Team of the Year in 2019. Foster was appointed
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the
2014 New Year Honours for services to bowls. == Honours (wins and gold only) ==